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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Rather than worrying about car companies copying their technology, Tesla now hopes they will do so, in order to expand the overall market for electric vehicles. This counterintuitive strategy is more than good PR — although that too — say several IP experts. But there is another advantage to the strategy.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 2 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 17, 2010 · 2 Comments Now that you’ve looked at your workforce (in The Boomers are Leaving! Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good.

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Executive Education Is Ripe for Online Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Codifiable knowledge — that which can be captured electronically without losing its meaning — can be stored on the web and shared with many, without the original author (professor) being involved in the sharing (teaching). We called it a codification strategy to knowledge sharing.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Some women wanted to advance to senior leadership roles so they could influence business strategy, lead change, and advance the goals and values of the company.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past. Make tacit knowledge explicit by codifying the things you do in capabilities, but keep rethinking, improving, and reworking your codification.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

The following steps can be used to successfully manage the transition to new leadership: Determine the strategy for the startup and identify CEO candidates’ experience executing a similar strategy. I’ve seen founders stay on successfully as chief technology officer, chief marketing officer, or as a board member.

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